This new system called Cluztr records every site you visit and sends it to the Cluztr site to be posted. The part that I find quite innovative is that you don’t have to get involved : a Firefox plugin takes the work over for you. It sounds like a good idea for anybody interested enough […]

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Okay, couldn’t resist to at least give a taste of another cool app I just found called “Statisfy” - it’s a Google Maps based website statistics analyzer. All you have to do is register with a real e-mail address and specify a site name which is hosted on the company’s site. You receive some HTML […]

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LinkedIn  just added a new feature to their site this week called “Who’s Viewed My Profile” that shows the last twenty people that have viewed your profile and the company or industry they belong to.Users choose what information they’d like to disclose when viewing a profile. The default choice is the anonymous profile information. This […]

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Starting Friday, April 27th Sony will be launching a video-sharing website - I couldn’t find any “real” information but I am guessing that the platform will be based on the Grouper video sharing site Sony acquired last year for $65 million. I’ll keep up on the news.
YouTube has been working in the last few months […]

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Just now I was taking a look through the newest links at Google Maps Mania and I came across a nice mash-up from the Canadian Cancer Society which uses flowers as markers for users to send their message of support for people fighting or who have fought cancer. Great job!
The Google Maps Group has received […]

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This weekend will see me working hard on integrating a bunch of new features to the mash-up over at Give Earth a Hand - hopefully either with a layer or even better the Javascript Lightbox effect originally from Lokesh Dhakar, the complete view of the Earth chain (this is causing problems as I need to […]

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Just been catching up on some of the newest technology news and the buzz at the moment is services which allow users to quicker buil mash-ups of many types of data sources. Pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups: lots of funny names for a very intersting technology. I’ll be checking out the various mash-up and screenscraper […]

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Thought I’d write a bit again for this blog. Last time I was just at the beginning of my current main project, Give Earth a Hand (http://www.giveearthahand.com). Well, that is up and running now and I am constantly working on adapting the site and building up the community. There is so much work to be […]

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Back again to keep this blog up and running. I have been working a lot on a templating system at work the last weeks which just went into the beta testing phase, so this has been one good week for me! Right now I am just cleaning up the code and tweaking it for the […]

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The last time I posted I was looking for possibilities to have a row of content change at certain intervals and I found what i was looking for over at Dynamic Drive. Using this script i was able to integrate three external (on the same server) PHP pages which process XML feeds and convert the […]

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